The Half Elf wrote on Nov 27, 2012, 22:12:And for Black Friday, once again Microsoft had SHIT on sale (least on Xbox Live).

Microsoft is relentless and unapologetic about their monetization of that platform, I gave up on it awhile ago and sold my 360. They stopped shelling out money to garner exclusives awhile ago, opting instead for exclusive DLC and even that has started to subside. They used to have interesting social gaming experiments as value adds, things like 1 vs 100 and shit canned them all when it came time to actually dole some prize money (money going out?! unpossible!). Their sales are awful, their DD store is a joke, XBLM/XBLA are a mess, the paid for MP is all P2P and about the only thing of genuine value these days is the media apps. Hell they are even phasing out some of those.